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St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

Survivors of the terror attack on the Israeli tour bus in Burgas, Bulgaria, returning to Israel with the help of the Israeli Air Force, July 19, 2012.

Survivor of Bulgaria attack recalls ‘hellish’ scene

By Ben Sales, JTAPublished July 19, 2012

TEL AVIV (JTA) -- Vered Kuza was standing with her daughter, Amit, on an airport shuttle bus at Sarafovo International Airport in Burgas, Bulgaria, when she suddenly heard a blast. “It’s an attack!” Kuza, 54, shouted at Amit, 26. “We need to get...

Survivors of the terror attack on the Israeli tour bus in Burgas, Bulgaria, returning to Israel with the help of the Israeli Air Force, July 19, 2012.

Netanyahu on deadly bombing in Bulgaria: ‘All signs point to Iran’

By Marcy Oster, JTAPublished July 19, 2012

A Black Sea coast town in Bulgaria became the scene of carnage when a bus carrying Israeli tourists exploded, killing at least five people and injuring at least 33. Nine people reportedly were missing. The explosion Wednesday at Sarafovo International...

Maxim Benvenisti, president of Bulgarias Jewish community organization, Shalom.

Bulgaria’s economic crisis has its Jewish community facing harsh realities

By Dianna Cahn, JTAPublished May 23, 2012

SOFIA, Bulgaria -- The stories – some months or years in the making -- started trickling in last year. Young successful families were showing up desperate. As Bulgaria’s program director for the American Joint Distribution Committee, Julia Dandalova...

Rabbi Josh Ahrens demonstrating how to put on tefillin during a conversion course at the Sofia JCC in Bulgaria, May 6, 2012.

New Bulgarian conversion course offering a pathway to ‘official’ Judaism

By Dianna Cahn, JTAPublished May 21, 2012

SOFIA, Bulgaria -- As a child, Gabrielle Pavlova pored over pictures of her Jewish paternal grandmother, who died decades before Pavlova was born. The family had no other tie to Judaism, and Pavlova was fascinated. She delved into her Jewish heritage,...

Lieberman offers aid to Syria

By Ben Harris, JTAPublished March 2, 2012

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that Israel is prepared to offer aid to victims of the violence in Syria as soon as it is asked.  According to a press release from Lieberman's office, the foreign minister said that Israel would offer "all humanitarian...

Greek Jews ask U.N. to recognize Bulgarian role in deportations

JTAPublished January 29, 2012

ATHENS—A Greek-Jewish umbrella group asked a United Nations body to make clear when commemorating Bulgaria's rescue of its own Jews the country's role in the genocide of Greek Jews. "Bulgarians saved their country's Jews in exchange for the Jews of...

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